The Dokkōdō is the only one of the three texts of which we have a copy in Musashi’s own hand. On that faded scroll are Musashi’s last written instructions — it consists of 21 precepts — to his students, and to any who would follow his path later. it constitutes the hard-won wisdom from the rigorous and perhaps sometimes lonely life of the kensei (’sword saint’). Dokkōdō "The Path Walked Alone" Do not ignore the many ways in the w...